Eight months after Hurricane Maria, the human toll is still unclear
One thing is clear: a lot more were killed than the official count of 64
MARIA was a brief visitor to Puerto Rico. The category-4 hurricane made landfall at 6am on September 20th last year and 11 hours later she was gone. She left a trail of destruction. Some 300,000 people were displaced; and the death toll? No one knows for sure.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Counting Puerto Rico’s dead”
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